SMART TV OWNERS HAVE MONEY, STILL WATCH AVOD, STUDY FINDS

5. 11. 2021 | 2 min read Vizio and Magid said 55% of smart TV owners watch AVOD.

TV SETS AND THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS OF THEATRICAL WINDOWS

19. 8. 2021 | 6 min read Narrowing the Gap Between Cinemas and Sofas

RESEARCH: 6 IN 10 US HOMES AVOD VIEWERS

19. 8. 2021 | 3 min read According to research firm TDG, six-in-ten connected-TV households now watch a free ad-supported streaming service on television. YouTube remains the dominant free VoD provider, with free ad-supported streaming TV services (FASTs) such as Pluto TV and IMDb seeing growing audiences.

OLDER VIEWERS ARE FASTEST GROWING AVOD SEGMENT

10. 8. 2021 | 4 min read Ad-supported streaming services need to ramp up originals to attract younger, more affluent audiences, new research from Ampere Analysis suggests

LINEAR PROGRAMMING MIGHT NOT BE DEAD AFTER ALL

21. 7. 2021 | 4 min read Ad supported streaming options continue to become more popular according to Horowitz Research.

FIVE STREAMING VIDEO TRENDS SHAPED 2021’S FIRST HALF, AND WILL SHAPE ITS FUTURE

9. 7. 2021 | 8 min read Halfway through a relatively momentous 2021, with the pandemic ebbing in at least some parts of the planet, several major trends have emerged, or re-emerged, and will help shape where the streaming-video industry heads going forward. The conflicts between those sometimes contradictory trends will shape the next stage of development in what’s clearly now the next generation of “TV.” Those trends are:

USA: STUDY TV WITH OR WITHOUT ADS? IT DEPENDS ON DELIVERY: STUDY

28. 6. 2021 | 2 min read When it comes to ad-supported TV platforms and networks versus ad-free TV services, one study says the decision is still mixed -- essentially a hung jury.

USA RESEARCH: VIEWERS MORE WILLING TO WATCH ADS

25. 6. 2021 | 3 min read Conventional wisdom says that TV viewers will do anything to avoid ads, but viewer behavior says something different, the Hub reports

PAID TV WILL GROW IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC, VIDEO AND TV WILL BLEND

21. 6. 2021 | 4 min read An increasing share of video on demand and online video and TV blending may be expected as one of the directions of TV broadcasting development.

TELEVISION’S IRRESISTIBLE POST-PANDEMIC APPEAL

11. 6. 2021 | 21 min read Television is shining white hot in the media agency playbook as advertisers scramble to get their brands airtime, pushing ad spend growth numbers into positive territory for the first time in years.

BROADCASTERS’ ROLE IN THE EVOLVING TV LANDSCAPE

17. 5. 2021 | 6 min read Tech-savvy consumers demand 24/7 entertainment at the touch of a button—anytime, anywhere

THE YEAR THAT TV SAVED US

8. 5. 2021 | 9 min read As life outside our homes shut down, the small screen became our treasured path to safe escape

TV’S RENAISSANCE

28. 4. 2021 | 5 min read With a highly anticipated Enders report into TV advertising out this week, Bobi Carley looks at a linear medium firmly back on planning agendas

VOYO WANTS TO PULL EVEN WITH NETFLIX AND DISNEY+

26. 4. 2021 | 13 min read Voyo wants to create space for its services in the prepaid video market. “In order to make progress, we will have to double the number of subscribers every year,” says the Director of Digital Media of CME, Daniel Grunt.

WHAT AVOD’S GROWTH MEANS FOR MARKETERS IN SEARCH OF EVOLVING CONSUMERS

13. 4. 2021 | 7 min read As viewer interest in ad-supported video on demand accelerates, marketers are trying to determine how to navigate the channel and avoid new walled gardens.

WHY CONNECTED TV ISN’T AS COMPLICATED AS ADVERTISERS THINK

5. 4. 2021 | 4 min read While advertisers now recognize the importance of CTV for reaching an enormous audience – 2020’s dramatic acceleration led to consumer user numbers exceeding 200 million – they are still concerned about how complicated it all seems and are still trying to figure out where to start.

AVOD WILL BE BIG, BUT WILL TAKE ITS TIME GETTING THERE

25. 3. 2021 | 5 min read Streaming is changing the world of TV viewing. But, unfortunately for the advertising world, the vast majority of this viewing is ad-free, since most of the largest and most dominant streaming services carry no ads -- Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, HBO Max (though that is changing), Apple TV+ -- and the two larger services that do carry ads -- YouTube and Hulu -- carry very light ad loads.

TRENDS OF THE MONTH: ROI, B2B AND NEXT GEN TV

19. 3. 2021 | 6 min read This month: How advertisers can double their return on investment (ROI), some of the challenges and opportunities for B2B marketers and the future landscape of TV advertising and audiences. Half of brands achieve an ROI of $1.06, but the most effective can double this For every $1 spent on media, advertisers can expect an average sales return of $1.06, according to data from Nielsen. The most effective 25% of advertisers, however, can achieve a return on investment (ROI) of $2.09 – nearly double the average.